Central Government Main Supply Estimates 2013-14

This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

The Main Supply Estimates for Central Government departments, presented to the House of Commons today, seek Parliamentary authority for expenditure in 2013-14.

Estimates seek Parliamentary authority for the voted element of spending plans set out in Spending Review 2010 and updated in Budget 2013.

Estimates are presented on a budgetary basis, the means by which the Treasury monitors and controls departmental spending. They include non-cash items, such as depreciation, which are excluded from the main spending totals used to present departments’ resource settlements.

A summary of the key figures in the Main Supply Estimates presented today is set out below, this excludes independent bodies’ Estimates not published today. Resource DEL less depreciation as shown below is consistent with Budget 2013.

£ million

Total Main Estimates presented on 18 April

Of which: voted

Resource DEL

339,216

269,332

Of which: Non ring-fenced DEL

319,566

251,394

Of which: administration budgets

13,373

13,355

Capital DEL

45,184

40,362

Resource AME

269,725

134,841

Capital AME

9,549

7,873

Non-budget

57,962

Net Cash Requirement

454,062

Notes for Editors

The Main Supply Estimates 2013-14 for Central Government can be found on the HM Treasury website. Separate Supply Estimates are presented for the independent Parliamentary bodies. Supply Estimates are the means by which the Government seeks funds from Parliament and Parliamentary authority for departmental expenditure each year.

Main Supply Estimates present the first opportunity for Parliamentary authority for spending for this financial year. There will be one further Estimates round in Spring 2014, which will be the last opportunity to revise the plans set out in these Main Estimates.

Independent Bodies: The National Audit Office (NAO), House of Commons: Administration and the Local Government Boundary for England will publish their Main Estimates separately today and the numbers are included in the table above. The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) and the Electoral Commission will be publishing their Estimates at a later date.

Estimates seek Parliamentary authority for voted resources, capital and cash, both for existing services and for any necessary new services. They include non-cash items such as depreciation (the allocation of the cost of consumption of an asset over its useful economic life). Along with other non-cash items, depreciation is excluded from the resource budgets announced in the Spending Review settlements as it has no direct impact on public sector borrowing or public sector net debt.

Some spending in budgets (such as Consolidated Fund Standing Services and payments from the National Insurance Fund) is not voted in the Estimates, as it is covered by specific legislation and therefore does not require additional Parliamentary approval. Similarly, the spending of Devolved Administrations is also included in the budgetary numbers as non-voted, as this is subject to separate approval. However, Parliament votes the grants to the devolved administrations, which score as non-budget in Estimates.

Reserve funding, as set out at Spending Review 2010, is not shown in departmental budgets or Estimates until it is allocated. Future drawing on the Reserve will be included in the individual departmental Supplementary Estimates presented towards the end of the financial year.

Annually Managed Expenditure (AME) is also shown in the Estimates. Forecasts of AME spending are conducted by the Office of Budget Responsibility (OBR). Their latest forecast accompanied Budget 2013.

Media enquiries should be addressed to the Treasury Press Office on 020 7270 5238. Non-media enquiries should be made to the Treasury Correspondence Unit on 020 7270 5000 or by email.

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